Speaker 1: Oh, did I fucking fuck up the snacks? So for sports,
Speaker 1: like my daughter has lacrosse and they email you and
Speaker 1: they ask, like if someone wants to be like snack
Speaker 1: mom or team mom, and like that's the correspondence mom.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to be like in the snack rotation,
Speaker 1: and I don't think I can own snacks. Snacks is
Speaker 1: probably something that many people want, but I got my
Speaker 1: fucking shot at snacks and I choked. And the reason
Speaker 1: I choked is that, like I've seen that they eat
Speaker 1: pizza or donuts and they've just done sports, and I thought,
Speaker 1: after sports, you'd want a Gatorade. Like I thought that
Speaker 1: was a lead. A gatory could be like two three
Speaker 1: dollars or you know, and just thirty kids. So I
Speaker 1: was gonna bring thirty Gatorades and a cond bar because
Speaker 1: I thought, you've just worked out, you has a donuts
Speaker 1: good and I know that's what a kid's gonna want.
Speaker 1: But like, I just got the combo between kind bars
Speaker 1: and gatorade would would endear me to the parents and
Speaker 1: be fine with the kids. So a couple of things happen.
Speaker 1: You got to know when to walk over you're on
Speaker 1: a la crossfield which is gigantic, like it's like a
Speaker 1: football field, and you don't want to be like the
Speaker 1: dork mom. It's like carrying all the snacks going across
Speaker 1: the field, and I already am like a no, I'm
Speaker 1: already a known person, and my daughter's friends are kind
Speaker 1: of fans and they know that. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to be the dork mom walking across, but there's sort
Speaker 1: of no other way to do it, and I just don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not incognito. And so I got to the game
Speaker 1: a little late last time, and Brinn didn't want the
Speaker 1: snack at the beginning anyway, because they're getting ready to play,
Speaker 1: so it's like you're playing double Dutch trying to figure
Speaker 1: out when to come in. So I walked across and
Speaker 1: brought them over there midway through, but like I didn't
Speaker 1: have it in a nice, cooler field with ice. It
Speaker 1: was just gatorades that were cold. I had had them
Speaker 1: in the freezer I prepared all day and they were
Speaker 1: then in this big like cooler zip you know, toe bag.
Speaker 1: But those kids are kind of intimidating by me and
Speaker 1: I at the end of the game, I was standing
Speaker 1: there and I was like, do you want to and
Speaker 1: I was embarrassing her. I'm sure I just wanted to
Speaker 1: sell my Gatorades and coind bars and I got fucking caught,
Speaker 1: and only and the first person took once I got excited,
Speaker 1: only three people took the Gatorades, and like nobody took
Speaker 1: a kind bar. But everybody was kind of dispersed already.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the game, like you need
Speaker 1: something that's going to attract them. It's not like the
Speaker 1: middle of the game where they're sort of just hydrating
Speaker 1: and bored and just taking something or it's on each
Speaker 1: of their chairs. It's something people have to walk over
Speaker 1: to fight each other for and like grab out of
Speaker 1: a bag. And it's like a psychology of things that
Speaker 1: are intimidating. And it happens at a Super Bowl buffet,
Speaker 1: or it happens at a barbecue. Like if you give
Speaker 1: people a certain food and it's the only thing they
Speaker 1: get and they're just standing there, they'll eat it. But
Speaker 1: if you're competing with other snacks, they're not going to
Speaker 1: go for your thing. So I choked. So I was
Speaker 1: talking to my assistant and she was like, you should
Speaker 1: you know we were in high school. They brought Clementines.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I'll be canceled if I
Speaker 1: bring clemen. First of all, they're touching dirty lacrosse sticks,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna fucking touch the skins and like
Speaker 1: touch put it in their mouth. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't like that touch, touch the fruit itself, put in
Speaker 1: their mouth. I don't like the Clementine vibe. And I
Speaker 1: guess the kind bar is that too. Everything you're gonna
Speaker 1: touch with your hands. So I guess now I gotta
Speaker 1: give them hand sanitizer and then they're gonna touch it.
Speaker 1: So then she suggested chicken nuggets. That's like so cool,
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, yeah, I love chicken nuggets, and
Speaker 1: so well they but what are we doing, Like, I'm
Speaker 1: they're gonna be cold chicken nuggets. I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: out of like Schaefer trays to or like a fucking
Speaker 1: air fryer on the side. So I was wanted to
Speaker 1: be like cool snack mom, and I choked. So what
Speaker 1: I decided, And I don't want any other moms to
Speaker 1: copy me on this, And I know this will be
Speaker 1: a fail because I think I'm changing my mind as
Speaker 1: I'm saying it. I went to Cinnabon and I saw
Speaker 1: they have individual little mini cinnabuns, like you're pulling them apart.
Speaker 1: And that also feels like gross, like they're gonna have
Speaker 1: dirty lacrosse hands touching those. So now as I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you about it, I think, like a bake by Melissa,
Speaker 1: it's at least dryer. It's like not a sticky like
Speaker 1: mix with dirt, and those are small or like treat
Speaker 1: it's individual rice Krispy Tree, it's mini cupcakes. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I might do cinnamon be cinnamon because it's
Speaker 1: from you know, Cinnabon, and those are so popular and
Speaker 1: everyone always loves them and that's so unique and different,
Speaker 1: and they make mini ones. So I'll get back to you.
Speaker 1: It's important that I get back to you and let
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm a fucking around with drinks. They
Speaker 1: could drink water, and I should get them many little
Speaker 1: cheap o waters that they have at the drug store
Speaker 1: because the big gatorad you know, it's a lot of
Speaker 1: waste too. It's not being green. I just feel like
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things I have to think through.
Speaker 1: I actually think a juice box, but then are they
Speaker 1: gonna think it's too babyish and they're like above juice
Speaker 1: boxes because they're very hydrating and they're functional. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I gotta go back and it's tomorrow, so I gotta
Speaker 1: get organized about my snacking. Oh well, I'm not even
Speaker 1: snack mom tomorrow, but I want to, like I want
Speaker 1: to make up for my bad snack thing and be
Speaker 1: like cool snacks. And my assistant was like, no, you're
Speaker 1: not snack mom tomorrow. So now I'm gonna be the
Speaker 1: one like showing up the other mom. And that's okay
Speaker 1: because I fucked up last time and I don't want
Speaker 1: anyone to know. I don't want anyone to copy me,
Speaker 1: So let me know what you guys think. Because I
Speaker 1: thought come bars were dry and that was positive, like
Speaker 1: not bad dry, but like not sticky, like not chocolate
Speaker 1: all over your uniforms. So that's why cinnabuns are a
Speaker 1: little flawed. But like Treathouse is only one place in
Speaker 1: a city, and then I'm causing a problem, like I
Speaker 1: just want to get something it's easy and accessible, so
Speaker 1: it's like supermarket individual cupcakes. Mini donuts seem like a
Speaker 1: good idea too, you know how they like the but
Speaker 1: then the powders everywhere and the chocolate's everywhere, Like what
Speaker 1: the fuck am I gonna do? And would you show
Speaker 1: up the other moms? Like what would you do? There's
Speaker 1: not a group of moms. I'm just saying, like I
Speaker 1: want to redeem myself. And I guess cold pizza is
Speaker 1: good too, Like what do I do? What's the one
Speaker 1: thing I could do to be different and unique that
Speaker 1: I'm willing to do to just like redeem myself and
Speaker 1: be cool snack mom? And they'll be like, oh my god, yay,
Speaker 1: Brin's mom brought like I just want to do that
Speaker 1: sports thing. They went from being little babies in a
Speaker 1: carriage to being like real athletes and like I thought
Speaker 1: if my daughter didn't play a lot, like that's the
Speaker 1: kind of thing. They're at the age where you could
Speaker 1: say sending to the coach like yeah, like can she
Speaker 1: play more? Like this is not where we are. We're
Speaker 1: at like competitive level sports. Some of the kids on
Speaker 1: her team for volleyball and basketball on lacrosse, they're not
Speaker 1: fucking around. They're like gazelles running down the field checking
Speaker 1: people like they're not they're serious athletes. So the game
Speaker 1: started catching up with me really quickly, no pun intended,
Speaker 1: where like I just didn't know that I had to
Speaker 1: have like extra credit sports. We're trying to do a
Speaker 1: tutor sometimes for school to keep up with that, but
Speaker 1: now we need like a sports tutor. And it can't
Speaker 1: just be like someone to come over with her and
Speaker 1: fuck around once in a while. It needs to be
Speaker 1: a league and camps. Because her friends are all in
Speaker 1: competitive leagues when they're not playing at school, so they're
Speaker 1: playing soccer, but they're playing soccer after school, and they're
Speaker 1: playing in a league after school, and they all are
Speaker 1: playing together, So like Britna doesn't look as close to
Speaker 1: the school as everybody else, so she's not caught up,
Speaker 1: and I just felt One day I had a breakdown.
Speaker 1: I was going to Florida for U for a trip,
Speaker 1: and she went to go to this after school sort
Speaker 1: of half bullshit volleyball thing. But I thought I was good,
Speaker 1: like I was doing extra credit getting her in a
Speaker 1: volleyball thing, but it's like not at the level. I
Speaker 1: now realized that I had her in spoiled volleyball, not intentionally.
Speaker 1: It was just like a normal place, but like it
Speaker 1: wasn't competitive fucking cutthroat volleyball. So she went over one
Speaker 1: day and the other kids didn't show up on that day,
Speaker 1: and she was crying because it was like an hour
Speaker 1: away because she was committed, and she's sometimes doing this
Speaker 1: till nine o'clock at night. She doesn't get home till
Speaker 1: ten o'clock at night, my twelve year old. So that
Speaker 1: night she was crying. She was like, now I missed.
Speaker 1: It was a nice day and I didn't get it,
Speaker 1: and everyone's ahead of me, and she was having anxiety
Speaker 1: because she's middle of the pack good, she's not the
Speaker 1: best and she's not the worst, but like other people
Speaker 1: are fucking on the case. So now I was gasping
Speaker 1: for air because we were behind, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: have it organized, like I didn't know it needed to
Speaker 1: be organized, like my business. So one night I got organized.
Speaker 1: My assistant. We were both like crying. My assistant was crying.
Speaker 1: I was crying. We felt like we were behind because
Speaker 1: we're in so sweet and we don't want her to
Speaker 1: feel bad and behind, and she's so nice and she's
Speaker 1: willing to do anything and she'll work hard and she
Speaker 1: doesn't care. But we weren't organized. We weren't treating it
Speaker 1: like a business. So I was more concerned with that
Speaker 1: than the appearance I was doing. And I got very
Speaker 1: fucking tight and right, and now I can't even breathe.
Speaker 1: Now she's like, now we're on the case. And what
Speaker 1: happens is during that sport, they're focused on that sport.
Speaker 1: So we were in basketball season and she realized that
Speaker 1: she wasn't good and she was freaking out, and she
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not good and I felt bad, and
Speaker 1: I found a place, and I found a place that
Speaker 1: weekend in Boston where she could at least go play
Speaker 1: with like older kids. But that's not her main sport
Speaker 1: that she cares about. So during basketball, all she was
Speaker 1: thinking about was basketball, but she wasn't playing ahead and
Speaker 1: thinking about what was gonna happen in the spring for lacrosse.
Speaker 1: So then she started lacrosse, and she's doing lacrosse, but
Speaker 1: like off season, people are still playing lacrosse, so and
Speaker 1: next year they'll be ahead of where she is. But
Speaker 1: it moves fast because now we're into volleyball and so
Speaker 1: it's very hard to know how to like be good
Speaker 1: at all of it. So she doesn't feel left out.
Speaker 1: And I think the answer is like you got to
Speaker 1: pick one or two things that you want to be
Speaker 1: good at because God doesn't give you everything, and you
Speaker 1: can't be good at everything. So we have to decide
Speaker 1: we're gonna suck at some things and play for fun,
Speaker 1: and some things we're gonna focus on. And that's really
Speaker 1: hard because when it comes to the season of sucking,
Speaker 1: you feel insecure and bad about yourself because the other
Speaker 1: people are good. So it's like it's very hard to
Speaker 1: manage playing chess and checkers with this sports shit. So
Speaker 1: right now, she's not in volleyball season, and she's doing
Speaker 1: volleyball on days that she's not playing lacrosse, and then
Speaker 1: so hopefully in the fall she'll be better at volleyball
Speaker 1: when they're playing volleyball, and all summer, I'm trying to manage,
Speaker 1: like playing all of it so we could just keep
Speaker 1: up with the joe Is and basketball is gonna be
Speaker 1: some sort of occasional thing and we're gonna sort of
Speaker 1: suck at basketball, but try to keep up and not
Speaker 1: cry because we suck, and then try during basketball season
Speaker 1: to keep up with lacrosse for next spring. I don't
Speaker 1: fucking know. This is insane, That's what I wanted to
Speaker 1: say overall, I want to talk about tween rules in
Speaker 1: an uber. I'm not comfortable with their Like many adults
Speaker 1: now after school they walk to get boba. We walked
Speaker 1: to We mean walk to get boba? And what do
Speaker 1: you mean you went to Target in New York City
Speaker 1: by yourself, Like you're twelve years old almost she's thirteen
Speaker 1: years old in two weeks. But like, these kids are
Speaker 1: all going to the mall and doing things, and I
Speaker 1: know I'm helicoptering, but it's just like it's New York
Speaker 1: City and I don't like it and I feel uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And so I have the Life three sixty track you
Speaker 1: kid on the phone, which I feel comfortable about, and
Speaker 1: it talk. It tells you how fast a car is
Speaker 1: going and all that. And Paul, my fiance, actually gave
Speaker 1: her rules for an uber, which I thought was amazing.
Speaker 1: When you get in, you take the uber's name, you
Speaker 1: take the information, and you call a parent and you
Speaker 1: tell them who you're in the uber with, and you
Speaker 1: tell the uber person that you're just gonna call the
Speaker 1: parent and can you get their name and information. You
Speaker 1: basically let the uber driver know that you're calling your
Speaker 1: parent and letting them know that you're in the car
Speaker 1: and how long will it take to get to the
Speaker 1: next place. So if you don't get to the next
Speaker 1: place on time, the parent knows that it's because of
Speaker 1: the uber that you're in, Like it's just effectively communicating
Speaker 1: so you feel safe, so the uber person knows you're
Speaker 1: alert and just that was sort of how Paul told
Speaker 1: it to her. She could explain it better because just
Speaker 1: a lot this between age who